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116 ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1845 .


Tobacco, &c. Licensing.


No. 3 of 1845.

Title. An Ordinance for Licensing the Retail of Tobacco and Snuff, within the
Colony of Hongkong, and the waters thereof.

[ 7th July, 1845. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to make further provision towards defraying the civil
WH expenses of the Colony of Hongkong.

No person to 1. Be it thereof enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
retail cigars, che
roots, snuff, or advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the first day of October
tobacco, without
a licence for that
purpose. next, no person or persons shall sell, or barter, or retail cigars, cheroots, snuff, or
tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, in less quantities or weights than those
hereinafter specified , without first duly having had and obtained such licence as is
hereinafter directed for that purpose : That is to say ; No person shall vend , sell , or
barter cigars and cheroots in less number than one thousand thereof at a time, or
snuff in a smaller quantity than 1 b. weight, or tobacco, manufactured or unmanufac
tured, (except prepared in the state of snuff, ) in a smaller or less quantity than 2 lbs.
weight thereof at a time, without such licence for that purpose .

Licence how to 2. And it is hereby provided, that every such licence shall be obtained from, and
be granted, and
particulars there granted by, the Colonial Secretary, on payment of a fee of twenty dollars, who shall
of.
duly register the issuing thereof, and that the said licence shall continue and be in
force from the day of the issuing thereof for a period of twelve months from the date
of its being issued, which shall be duly specified in the said licence.

Penalties impos 3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that if from and after the time limited
ed for the infrin
gement or viola for this Ordinance to come into operation and effect, any unlicensed person or persons
tion ofthis Ordi
nance. shall sell, vend, barter, or retail cigars, cheroots, snuff, or tobacco, manufactured or
unmanufactured , in less quantities or weights at a time than as above prescribed and
mentioned, he or they, for every such offence, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a summary manner before any Magistrate of
Police, and in default of said penalty being paid after conviction , the same shall be
levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels, and if there be no suf
ficient distress, every such offender shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding one calendar month. Provided always, that in case any such conviction
shall take place and be had on the evidence of any common or public informer, he or
she shall be entitled to one moiety of said penalty.




[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1858.]